Conveyer for bottled soda-water.



' E. R. BARBER. v GONVEYEE FOR BOTTLED SODA WATER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 14,1913.

Application. filed July 31, 1912. Serial No. 712,510.

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE R. BARBER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Valdosta, in the county of Lowndes and State of Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Conveyor for Bottled Sodal'Vater, of which the following is a full,- clear, and exact description.

It is a design of my invention to provide a means for conveying soda water in bottles, in bottling works, from the dili'erent tables or from automatic bottling machines, to any point in the plant where the goods are to be examined, labeled and packed, ready for sale onshipment. The handling of bottled soda water involves special difliculties not met with in the mere handling of empty -bottles, because in the case of bottled soda water, the bottles are subject to explosion by reason of rough handling, by the bottles coming in contact with a metal, or other hard surface, or from a fall on a hard surface, or from the bottlesfalling against each other.

My invention has alsofor its design, the production of a conveying means that will. prevent the bottles from being arred either against each other, or against any hard object in a way that might cause an explo- The invention further has for its design, the production of a conveying means for the purpose indicated, in which the filled bottles will be carried to a revolving table, and the provision of means associated with the table to prevent the bottles from being jammed on the table, should the removal of the bottles by he labelers or examiners be interrupted.

while the operation of the conveying means' disk 16, and then to the table 12, as indiis permitted to continue.

The distinguishing features of my invention, and the important structural elements characterizing the preferred embodiment which is illustratedas' an example, will be more particularly explained in the specific description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of refercnee indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine showing one embodiment of my invention, parts being broken away; Fig. 2 is a plan view; Fig. f is an elevation at right angles to Fig. 1, with parts in section, on about the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. l-

a fraginentary view on an enlarged scale showing a guiding anddistributing attachment associated with the table, to prevent the bottles from being jammed.

In constructing the machine embodying my invention, a suitable framework is provided on which is mounted for rotation, a vertical shaft 11 carrying at its top a circular table 12, adjacent to which table and fixed to any convenient portion of the frame is a vertical guard rim 13, extending around the outside of the table 12, in close relation thereto for nearly a complete circle, leaving an opening or throat 14, to which throat leads a conveyor belt 15. At the throat 14- and bridging the gap between the conveyor 15 and the table 12, is a horizontal rotary disk 16, pivoted at its center as at 17 on an upright stud 18, said disk overlapping both the table 12 and the conveyer belt 15, and adapted tobe rotated frictionally by the imovements of said belt and table. 1 Any suitable means may be provided for grotating the table and actuating the belt; in the example given the table is provided gVlth peripheral rack teeth 19, meshing with iwhich is a spur pinion20 on a short vertical shaft 21, said shaft having a pulley 22. A CI'OSS belt 23 extends around the pulley 22, land over a drive pulley 24 on a drive shaft f25, the various shafts being mounted in suitable bearings on theframe of the machine. i The upper stretch of the conveyer belt 15 travels in the direction of the table 12 and runs over the bottom 26 of a runway, the

one of-which is indicated by dotted lines at 28, the bottles passing remit-he belt. onto the cated' at 28. The belt 15 is of soft material, such as leather, fabric, or other non-metallic material, and at the end adjacent to the. table 12, the belt passes over abroad drive the same and a ulley 30, the latter being mounted on a s aft 31 that has bearing blocks 32 supported on springs 33 that tend to force the bearing blocks 32 upward to exert pressure on the lower run of the belt, causing the latter to be gripped between the upper and lower pulleys 29, 3O sufficiently tight to be driven. The pressure on the belt maybe regulated by screws 34; that take against the upper ends of the blocks 32. At

ive-rtical sides 27 of which. guide the bottles pulley 29, the lower'stretch 15 of the belt passing beneath said pulley 29, and between Stil from jamming on the outside and cause the opposite end the belt runs over a pulley 35 mounted on an auxiliary frame 10 that supports also the outer end of the runway 26, 27. The driving shaft 25 of the pulley 29 and the shaft 3]. of the pulley 30 are geared together by spur gears 36, 37, fixed on said shafts.

The rotation of the table 12 carries the bottles away from the disk '16 as fast as they are received on the table, and, in order that the bottles may not become jammed on the table, nor jarred against each other, an attachment is rovided whereby as the bottles are carrier around the table after having been received, they will be directed toward the center. Thus a horizontal arm 38 supported on the standard 39 from the frame 10 extends inwardly and overhangs above the table 12, andon said aria are arranged depending blades, three of which are indicated in the example, shown. The blades are designated by the numerals 40, 41 and 42, and the successive blades are separated by an increasing distance toward the center, there being in practice, more than three employed. The arm 38 is supported sutliciently high above the table to permit the bottles to pass therebeneath, and the depending blades on said arm incline from the arm inwardly so to detlcct the bottles contacting therewith toward the central portion of the table. Thus the guard rim 13 prevents the bottles from being carried outward beyond the edge of the table, and the blades 40, 41 and t2 prevent the bottles them to'move toward the center without violent contact with each other.

In practice the feed of thebotties to the table is not greater than the attendants can handle, but the table has such a capacity that any tern )orary suspension-in the wor of the atten ants in removing the bottles from the table while the conveyor continues to operate and deliver bottles,- will aim ly serve to collect the bottles on the table, rst l carried thereby. ln practice, the bottles are taken from the various bottling machines or bottling tables and placed on the conveyor belt, which is of a length to reach the various bottling machines or tables inthe plant. v

Having thus described myinventioml claim as new and desire to secure by Letters ]atent-- v 1. The combination with a rotary'table of a conveyor belt leading to the table, ans 7 a rotary disk overlapping the conveyor and table, to transfer bottles from the conveyor to the table, and said device being in contact with the belt and table and the contact serving to rotate said device.

2. In a machine for handling bottled soda water and other bottled goods, the combination of a rotary table, means for conveying bottles to the table, including a runway leading in the direction of the table, and" having, a bottom and sides, an endless flexible belt having its upper stretch running,

on the bottom of the runway and traveling in the direction of and achacent to the table,

means for actuating said belt, and a lane revolving dislc overlying the belt an disv posed beneath a side of the runway at the end adjacent to the table, so that any portion ot'the said surface may receive an advancing bottle from the runway. f

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 1

. EUGENE ROBERTS BARBER.

Witnesses H. BAMBERG, R. B. 'Mrnnn'rrns. 

